Apalachicola Riverkeeper

The citizen group Apalachicola Riverkeeper has challenged the Department of Environmental Protection to prevent drilling in the floodplain.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has okayed a draft permit, and Apalachicola Riverkeeper is challenging it

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection approved a draft permit, but the citizen group Apalachicola Riverkeeper has challenged it

A renewed effort to explore for oil drilling in an environmentally sensitive area of Calhoun County in North Florida is now under legal threat.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of intent to approve the application by Clearwater Land & Minerals LLC to drill for oil in the Apalachicola River basin.

The proposed site is surrounded by the Apalachicola River, the Chipola River, and Dead Lakes. The Kleinfelder company wants to use a well that’s already there to drill through the Floridan aquifer in search of oil.

Both the water and the oysters are "in recovery mode"

Another drilling firm still has permits to explore in neighboring Calhoun County.

Cholla Petroleum sent a letter to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in early March expressing its intention to move ahead with the first of what could ultimately be six permitted wells.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recently postponed making a final rule on its proposal to ban wild oyster harvesting in the Apalachicola Bay until 2025.